HIPAA Patient Right to Amend PHI
It seems hard to imagine this now, but three decades ago, before HIPAA was signed into law, a patient’s legal right to amend or correct a [...]
Leap Year Law and the HIPAA Breach Notification Deadline
Is there such a thing as a leap year law? Once every four years (e.g., 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012), there is a February 29th. Years with [...]
MSP Ransomware Attack Hits Over 100 Dental Practices
Complete Technology Solutions (CTS) is a managed service provider located in Colorado. It provides services to over 100 dental practices. On November 25, 2019, CTW suffered [...]
HIPAA Medical Surveys
Frequently, hospitals and other healthcare providers will want to conduct HIPAA medical surveys or questionnaires of patients, to determine whether patients were satisfied with the quality of care and [...]
Appealing a HIPAA OCR Notice
The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) investigates complaints of HIPAA violations. If OCR determines a violation has occurred, the HHS [...]
Coronavirus and HIPAA Concerns
Human coronaviruses are common throughout the world, and commonly cause mild to moderate illness in people worldwide. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is closely monitoring an [...]
Is Salesforce HIPAA Compliant?
Salesforce.com is a cloud-based software company. Most of its revenue comes from its customer relationship management (CRM) service. Salesforce also sells enterprise-wide applications for customer service, analytics, app development, [...]
Issues with HIPAA and Nursing Home Care: HIPAA Goes to Court
Issues with HIPAA and nursing home care have arisen over disclosure of medical records of deceased residents. Several years ago, a federal appeals court had to [...]
Exposure of PHI at Drug and Alcohol Addiction Rehabilitation Center
Sunshine Behavioral Health, LLC, is a network of drug and alcohol addiction rehabilitation centers based in San Juan Capistrano, California. According to Dissent of the website [...]
HIPAA Network Security
For a HIPAA covered entity (i.e., a health provider), there is often a direct relationship between the health of the network and the health of the [...]
